On This Day: August 6th

A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.

NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.

Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.

A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.

Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people on board.

NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.

Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.